August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 16m
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Scheduled trigger means that Jenkins runs the build periodically, no matter if there was any commit to the repository or not.
As the following figure presents, there is no communication with any system needed:

The implementation of Scheduled build is exactly the same as polling SCM. The only difference is that the keyword cron is used instead of pollSCM. This trigger method is rarely used for the commit pipeline but applies well to nightly builds (for example, complex integration testing executed at nights).
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